U.S. astronaut, Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon, alluded to a monolith detected on Mars' moon Phobos. Speaking on a U.S. cable television channel he said: "We should visit the moons of Mars. There's a monolith there - a very unusual structure on this little potato shaped object that goes around Mars once every seven hours. 'When people find out about that they are going to say, "Who put that there? Who put that there?" Well the universe put it there, or if you choose God put it there." In 2007 the Canadian Space Agency funded a study for an unmanned mission to Phobos known as PRIME (Phobos Reconnaissance and International Mars Exploration).

Phobos is a vastly promising location for future exploration. The moon itself has long been an anomaly; its orbital characteristics suggest it may be hollow. More aggressive speculation suggests that Phobos may in fact be a derelict spacecraft of the "generation ark" variety described by science writers such as Isaac Asimov. Unexplained surface features such as the numerous converging grooves, together with the conspicuous monolith-like formations, pose the possibility that Phobos harbors uneroded structures deserving of close attention.

Lan Fleming a NASA imaging specialist who has interest in Mars and other solar system anomalies. Lan looked at it and upon further examination and study concluded, that the monolith was a physical anomaly on the surface of Phobos.

The building-sized monolith is the main proposed landing site because scientists believe the object is a boulder exposed relatively recently in an otherwise featureless area of the asteroid-like moon. PRIME investigator Dr Alan Hildebrand said it could answer questions about the moon's composition and history. "If we can get to that object, we likely don’t need to go anywhere else," he told his science team.

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"...a boulder exposed relatively recently" - like how?

In keeping with the spacecraft notion then maybe the ship is not as tremendously beaten as thought. I am brainstorming here for fun and thinking along the lines of first contact rules. Suppose your species wanted to have an expedient first contact with a worthy race but laws of physics yet uncovered by a race more advanced than our own still disallow any quick means of interstellar travel. Interplanetary travel might serve to designate worthiness and time for first contact in hopes that the combined knowledge might find a means to travel more quickly and preserve one race or another.

In the case of our solar system it might be handy to have the docking ports of the ship perform a self cleaning every 36 hundred years or so.

Isn't it neat that a watery planet has been spotted by Geoffrey Marcy of the University of California, Berkeley.

I doubt they really said recently exposed, since there is no way to measure that. There is no rain, or atmosphere, or any process for erosion. We know that planets capture moons. To assume it is a spaceship is quite a leap. But, assuming it was a spaceship? You should probably tread carefully. If it has been floating there for millions of years, we can afford for human technology to advance beyond this primitive joke we have now before messing with it. Not only can it be dangerous, you might break things. Socrates was a smart guy, but he would not understand an Iphone should he have found one, and likely he would have broken it. It might even defend itself. We already know it is in the nature of the universe for complex bodies to have immune systems. For all the money man wastes being warlike lying murdering morons, how much of a reason do you need to explore Mars? Any reason is a good one. Humans are notorious for suffering optical illusion. Mars is not that far away in the grand scheme of things, just a matter of time before they go have a look.

Who cares about the history of the moon? We need to spend money on space exploration to get more resources for humanity. I hope the US is not spending hundreds of billions of dollars just to speculate on where the moon came from. I don't understand why people are motivated more by these questions than in resource exploitation. There is soooooo much stuff out there, we just need to figure out a way to get it into a Wallmart near you!

If so : give it my name
Ankhaton Periscope
That would be nice.
see me on youtube
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Januari 1997,
at the occassion of two untill now unexplained
really mega-giant gamma bursts
in EMPTY spaces of the milkyway
related to comet Hale-Bopp,
in opposite direction, . . .

and I thought those burst to be
BRAKING manoeuvres from H-B's companion
SEARCH SHRAMEK+COMPANION

SO
I phoned Mr Tom Van Flandren (RIP now)

the then major Mars specialist
and asked
If there was any nature on Mars ,
how long ago would that have been :

Neal Adams has been working at this question for years!
The moon is a geode growing from the inside out. The spire is a crystal that has broken loose and pushed out by internal pressure,
See - Neal Adams Expanding Earth!

Its too bad that we will never truly know what is on the moon and Mars because of the Van Allen radiation belt that keeps us from going too far from the Earth. As God put it there so we wouldn't be going to other planets and warring against them like we do all the other nations of the Earth!! We never truly went to the moon and we will never conquer Gods "Van Allen Radiation Belt" that He has encircling the Earth to keep devils like the new world order antichrist beast system from polluting other planets and heavenly bodies like they are now destroying the Earth!!

And their hideous and ghoulish faces and bodies will be seen on the Great Judgment Day in the very near future. Why? Because they will be greatly tormented and hideously ugly in that great lake of fire and brimstone for killing millions of people who wouldn't take their zombie making mark of the beast chip in the very near future!! Read Revelation 13 and 14!!

why anyone would believe a single word that NASA says is beyond me since they have been lying to us from their beginning.
of course man did not go to the moon because of the van allen radiation belt and other reasons, as rev reg jack says in the above comment.

I would just like to say to the Rev. Reggie Jackson that it must be sad being so bitter. I can look around me right now and not see war, plague or pestilence. Yes I know they do exist in parts of this planet that I have personally been in and seen first hand. Have you ever thought of getting you hands dirty and making a personal difference or do you just sit in your little corner and cry about it?

For information on UFO coverups see Richard Dolan's book:
"UFOS and The National Security State"

Richard M. Dolan presented a lecture at the 1st Leeds Exopolitics Expo in 2009 on Exopoltics & UFO Disclosure and he returns to Leeds in 2010 with his second volume of UFOs and the National Security State now in print and the third volume on the way.
His Leeds lecture can be found on Youtube.

What is really cool here and not stated is that the pair of photos at the bottom are stereo images. If you combine them in a viewer or free view them you will see the monolith in a stereo window - quite impressive. Fascinating stuff here!

Interesting photos. Need estimated height etc... for validation.
Little doubt that ET's or ID beings exist. They still need to land on the White House lawn for non-believers and to trump the CIA and other assorted Spooks. Not sure that the state of the human condition makes us worthy of open contact as yet. One can hope for better behavior on our part, at some point.The truth from those who really know would also be welcome. The political
officers from NASA should not taken seriously.

Hey! Catch up! Our moon and this solar system are littered with FANTASTIC structures that could only be built by HIGHLY INTELLIGENT BEINGS (unlike what u find here on earth.) But looks like there was a catastophy unlike anything we've known that destroyed most of it. History can't tell u what happened to them because they were destroyed

My guess is that the "monolith" is a volcanic neck with the surrounding cone of softer material eroded away similar to the volcanic necks located in the U.S. southwest such as the formation known as "shiprock". Also, the monoliths on the moon might be volcanic necks created when the moon was much hotter. No need to bring in bug eyed aliens when there are much easier explanations. Another possibility is that the monoliths were created by asteroid impacts with the "monoliths" being the center ejection columns now eroded. Also, the Bush story that Muslims from caves in Afghanistan completely vaporized and pulverized the entire WTC with 2 planes is just as crazy as the bug eyed alien stories.